From Katy Perry's comeback to the Joker sequel: 15 celebrity flops and fails of 2024

Money, success, power, quality - it often seems arsenic if celebrities person everything they could perchance want.

So it's conscionable arsenic good they besides get tangled up successful their just stock of mishaps, blunders and ain goals each year.

Here's a light-hearted look astatine immoderate of 2024's biggest flops and fails.

It was expected to beryllium a triumphant return, but critics and fans complained Katy Perry's latest medium 143 sounded dated and showed small creator growth.

The euphony video for Woman's World, which saw Perry articulation a radical of dancers wearing tiny outfits connected a operation site, was criticised for being regressive, though Perry aboriginal said it was expected to beryllium satirical.

Matters were lone made worse erstwhile the vocalist attracted the attraction of the Spanish authorities for shooting the video for follow-up azygous Lifetimes successful ecologically-sensitive soil dunes successful the Balearic Islands.

But galore fans defended the album, which wasn't arsenic atrocious arsenic immoderate reviews made out, and Perry's accompanying circuit has been a immense success.

Making a sequel to 2019's Joker, which grossed much than $1bn (£790m), was thing Hollywood recovered simply irresistible.

Unfortunately, the resulting film, Joker: Folie à Deux, was thing audiences recovered wholly resistible.

Making the movie a philharmonic was a bold swing, but the tonal handbreak crook alienated the fans and critics who adored the Oscar-winning original.

Folie à Deux managed to scrape implicit the $200m (£158m) mark, but that was hardly enough to screen its accumulation budget, fto unsocial selling costs.

It wasn't the lone movie flop of the twelvemonth - audiences were besides unenthusiastic astir Madame Web, The Fall Guy, Kraven the Hunter, Megalopolis, Borderlands, Argylle, Unstoppable and Furiosa: A Mad Max Story.

Ticketmaster attracted a tempest of contention aft making usage of alleged "dynamic pricing" for UK dates connected the Oasis reunion tour, which raised the outgo of a summons by £200 owed to the predictable demand.

Charging fans £350 per summons was a dubious PR determination for a set celebrated for their moving people roots, and the Gallagher brothers wisely distanced themselves from the strategy.

But Ticketmaster argued prices are acceptable by artists and promoters. Dynamic pricing was aboriginal ditched for the band's US circuit dates.

Meanwhile, 50,000 fans who'd paid inflated prices connected secondary platforms successful bid to unafraid tickets faced having them cancelled. A full omnishambles for everyone involved.

When BBC upwind presenter Kawser Quamer was asked successful February astir her plans for the weekend, she cheerfully explained she was attending her niece's astonishment day party.

Host Annabel Tiffin said that each sounded precise lovely, but presumably the enactment was nary longer a surprise, having conscionable been announced connected unrecorded TV. "Oh goodness me," replied an alarmed Quamer, "I've spoiled the surprise!"

The glorious mishap made its mode crossed the Atlantic, going viral and featuring connected Jimmy Kimmel Live.

But Quamer handled it beautifully, and even managed to person her niece she was talking astir a antithetic relative, keeping the astonishment constituent intact.

Chaos is simply a word which could beryllium applied to a batch of entries successful this list, but 1 of the biggest casualties of the twelvemonth was Kaos itself.

Just a period aft the archetypal bid of Jeff Goldblum's Greek mythology play was released, Netflix announced it would not instrumentality for a second.

Streamers tin archer rapidly if thing is simply a deed oregon not by measuring viewing figures and completion rates. Their information adjacent gives them the prospective ratings of the pursuing months based connected the first.

But though fans campaigned for its return, yet Kaos was Kancelled.

Manchester's hottest caller unrecorded venue yet opened this year, but lone aft respective attempts. There was a drawstring of cancellations owed to assorted method problems, including a ventilation portion falling from the ceiling.

Shows by Peter Kay, Olivia Rodrigo, Take That and others were cancelled oregon moved, earlier the venue yet opened with a palmy performance from stone set Elbow.

The problems did astatine slightest bring 1 delightful moment: A Radio 4 newsreader announcing the hold of a gig by US rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie.

Flops don't travel overmuch bigger than a statement show which was truthful poor, it brought down an full statesmanlike campaign.

Joe Biden seemed distant and frail erstwhile helium took portion successful a televised unrecorded debate successful June, struggling to decorativeness immoderate of his sentences and support gait with Donald Trump.

Biden tried to enactment successful the race, but the unit connected him became excessively precocious arsenic figures including Democrat fundraiser George Clooney publically called for him to basal down, starring to Kamala Harris replacing him arsenic the candidate.

A barnstorming show from Celine Dion sadly wasn't capable to rescue this soggy croissant of an opening ceremony, which was severely hampered by rain.

Organisers took the lawsuit extracurricular of the accepted stadium mounting and had performers dispersed retired crossed Paris instead, which was some a information nightmare and challenging for spectators.

The dispersed meant things felt somewhat disjointed and it was hard for the ceremonial to physique immoderate momentum.

Meanwhile, immoderate viewers were upset by a country involving resistance queens which galore interpreted arsenic a notation to the Last Supper, but creator manager Thomas Jolly said was a notation to pagan gods.

Hot connected the heels of the disastrous Willy Wonka experience was an unofficial Bridgerton ball, wherever fans of the Netflix bid were invited to formal up and "step into the enchanting satellite of the Regency era".

Unfortunately, they were greeted with disappointing nutrient and drab decor, with 1 violinist and a rod dancer for entertainment. Creators blamed "organisational challenges" and said they "sincerely apologised".

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Laura Kuenssberg withdrew from an interrogation with Boris Johnson successful October aft mistakenly sending her briefing notes to the erstwhile premier curate himself, resulting successful what she called a fewer "red faces".

ITV took implicit and Johnson later told BBC Radio 5 Live's Matt Chorley his primitively scheduled interrogation had "blown up connected the motorboat pad".

Elsewhere, thousands of viewers complained to Ofcom successful August erstwhile Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was interviewed connected Good Morning Britain by her ain husband, Ed Balls, astir the convulsive unrest successful parts of the UK.

ITV's main enforcement aboriginal noted it was a fluid quality greeting and the squad had abbreviated announcement that Cooper was coming on. She said the interrogation was impartial and just but it wouldn't hap again.

Another daytime presenter, Lorraine Kelly, became the taxable of a viral X relationship which monitored her amusement attendance passim the twelvemonth (hovering conscionable beneath 60%, if you're interested).

Over connected Strictly Come Dancing, which had already had a reasonably appalling year earlier this bid adjacent started, fans were puzzled by immoderate antithetic on-screen encounters betwixt vocalist Wynne Evans and his spouse Katya Jones.

Viewers spotted Jones seemingly refusing to high-five Evans, and aboriginal moving his manus distant from her waist.

The show's payment squad checked successful connected them aft concerns were raised, but the brace apologised for what they said was really conscionable a "very silly wrong joke" betwixt them.

When Oppenheimer was named champion movie astatine February's Baftas, the prize was collected by histrion Cillian Murphy, manager Christopher Nolan, shaper Emma Thomas... and a random antheral lasting silently successful the background.

The intruder was really YouTuber Lizwani, who managed to infiltrate the lawsuit and marque it each the mode to the signifier during the night's biggest moment.

But the information helium was lasting softly and respectfully meant fewer viewers adjacent noticed thing was wrong. Bafta person since tightened security.

A period later, determination was much awkwardness erstwhile Oppenheimer was named champion representation astatine the Oscars, successful an announcement fumbled by Al Pacino.

Pacino dispensed with the accepted "And the Oscar goes to..."

Instead, helium stumbled done proceedings before announcing somewhat abruptly: "My eyes spot Oppenheimer."

There was a delayed absorption from the assemblage and orchestra, who weren't wholly definite if Pacino was finished oregon if they had heard the victor correctly.

But Scarface redeemed himself aboriginal successful the twelvemonth by revealing his delightful Shrek telephone cover, courtesy of his young daughter. All was forgiven.

When 1 instrumentality affectionately edited a promotional poster for Wicked to lucifer the musical's archetypal Broadway illustration, histrion Cynthia Erivo said it erased her publication to the film, due to the fact that her eyes were hidden nether her witch's hat.

A barrage of memes followed arsenic fans lightly poked fun astatine her reaction, with galore societal media users jokingly trying to debar immoderate further erasure by attaching pictures of Erivo to posts which had thing to bash with her.

The archetypal instrumentality clarified that the altered movie promo was intended to beryllium "an guiltless instrumentality edit to wage homage to the archetypal Broadway poster".

But Erivo handled the backlash similar a pro, making airy of the concern and telling ET: “For maine it was conscionable similar a quality infinitesimal of wanting to support small Elphaba. I astir apt should person called my friends."

When Rishi Sunak called a wide predetermination successful May, the then-prime curate made the announcement outdoors contempt it bucketing with rain.

Being successful the unfastened aerial besides allowed an anti-Tory activistic to disrupt the announcement by blasting euphony from a adjacent speaker.

But Sunak gamely stuck it out, aboriginal commenting that helium was "not a fair-weather politician" and confirming he'd beryllium taking an umbrella connected the run trail.

Live tours and concerts were disrupted this twelvemonth for each kinds of reasons.

Jennifer Lopez cancelled her lives shows after reports of mediocre summons sales, though she said it was truthful she could walk clip with household and friends.

Tenacious D's circuit fell isolated aft 1 subordinate made immoderate ill-advised comments about Donald Trump.

And Madonna's fans became progressively frustrated with her lateness.

Elsewhere, Adele repeatedly swore astatine an assemblage subordinate successful Las Vegas who she thought had shouted "Pride sucks". It transpired the instrumentality had really shouted "work sucks" aft the vocalist discussed her moving week. Oops.

So just play to Kate Nash for not lone keeping her amusement connected the road, but backing her tour by selling pictures of her bottommost online, helpfully bringing publicity to the issues of precocious circuit costs and mediocre streaming royalties successful the process.